Discussion The long term survival of people who retire early at ages 55 or 60 is no better than that of those who retire at 65. On the contrary, mortality improved with increasing age at retirement for people from both high and low socioeconomic groups, defined according to employment grade. It is reasonable to assume that some workers retired at 55 because of failing health, as the mortality f...

In this study, the authors examined whether neighborhood socioeconomic environment predicted incident coronary heart disease after adjustment for individual-level characteristics. A random sample of the Swedish population (25,319 women and men aged 35-74 years) was interviewed between 1986 and 1993 and was followed through December 1997 for incident coronary heart disease (1,189 events). Neighb...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between suicide and socioeconomic status, unemployment, and chronic illness. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING England and Wales. SUBJECTS Individuals from the Office for National Statistics longitudinal study for whom 1981 census data were available. The longitudinal study is a representative 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in w...

In 1997, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) was granted the responsibility of conducting the Census of Agriculture. This census was previously conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Since NASS conducts many ongoing sample surveys on the Census of Agriculture’s target population, the opportunity arose to investigate alternative data sources to measure various aspects of t...

The objective of this study was to describe and compare the tricipital (TSF) and subscapular skinfold (SSF) thickness according to demographic, socioeconomic, behavioral, and biological characteristics in adolescents from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. A cross-sectional study nested in a birth cohort (n = 4,452; mean age = 11 years) was conducted. The outcomes were defined as skinfol...